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Rebound for Trump possible if he learns

He needs to "triangulate" - form legislative coalitions with both Republicans and Democrats on various policy issues

Published Tue, Mar 28, 2017 · 09:50 PM

Washington

ALMOST every American who went through the public school system probably recalls the informative and entertaining class, "How a Bill Becomes a Law", which usually included the screening of a cartoon that tried to simplify what was really a very complex legislative process.

In fact, as an (adult) reporter starting to cover Washington, it took me quite a while to figure out that it actually takes a very long time before a bill is turned into a law, and it all is very, very boring, and involves hard work of negotiating and re-negotiating, and that most of the bills introduced by lawmakers never reach the desk of the president for signature.

It now seems that when a pupil by the name of Donald John Trump went to school in the late 1950s he may have missed, or probably slept through, his How-a-Bill-Becomes-a-Law class (these days we could speculate that Don the Kid might have been tweeting somethi…

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